You may come across a bogus site and accidentally allow it to send messages to your browser, which can result in getting annoying (and fake) pop up messages. To disable a site from sending these messages, do one of the following depending on your browser:
Safari:
- Select the Safari menu
- Choose Settings (or hit command and ,)
- Choose "websites" from navigation bar at the top
- Choose Notification from the left navigation bar
- Select the bogus website
- Either deny and/or remove it
Chrome:
- Navigate to chrome://settings/content/notifications in the address bar
- Under the "allowed to send notifications" section, find the offending site and select the three dots by it
- Remove or block the site